Dilruba is a metal, parchment, and horsehair stringed instrument. This instrument is found in several locations of North India and is used in religious events. In Northern Classical music, it is commonly employed as a solo instrument as well as an accompaniment instrument. Gurbani is frequently accompanied by this instrument.
About a hundred or hundred and fifty years ago, the instrument dilruba became a standard component of Sikh devotional music, and the esraj became highly famous in Bihar and Bengal. Dilruba and esraj have elements of both the sitar and the sarangi.
To play it, you need to have 20 heavy metal frets on an instrument that looks like a sitar with a medium-sized neck. There is a long wooden rack with 12-15 sympathetic strings attached to the neck of the guitar. Each of the dilruba's four primary strings is composed of metal, with a bow attached to them.
A stretched strip of goatskin, similar to that seen on a sarangi, serves as the soundboard. For balance or tone enhancement, a gourd is sometimes mounted to the top of the instrument. The instrument can be placed between the player's knees while kneeling, or on the player's knee while sitting, or on the floor in front of them with their neck lying on the left shoulder.
The bow is used to play it, and the other hand moves along the strings above the frets. To achieve the portamento, or meend, distinctive of Indian music, the performer may slide the note up or down. Students at SoulFul Musik Academy can learn dilruba from the ground up by taking dilruba classes in India and mastering this instrument.
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